Chicago, 1919

It was 1919 in America. The First World War had just ended, and many of the country’s major industrial and financial powers had only recently been founded. They were still tender shoots rising from the soil. Some were even struggling to stay afloat in a turbulent market.

He remembered that Warner Bros. had apparently set up its little studio in Hollywood just a year ago, and was now scrambling to secure the rights to adapt a Broadway musical called Gold Diggers.

Paramount Pictures had been founded only three years earlier, and its founder, J. L. Lasky, was still tangled up in the fine print of studio acquisitions and disputes over how to divide the profits.

Then Remy had an idea. What would happen if he used his knowledge of the future to take control of these financial giants while they were still in their infancy?

So Remy Arnold set himself a modest goal: to make the Arnold family the world’s foremost financial dynasty.

He would start with Hollywood.